D7 - Any suggestions re how I could build a page that is an image gallery - most likely 30-60images probably displayed 4 wide. Would like to have kind of index on top - each image has several people in it and would like to make it easy for people to maybe go to names using several person's-name-pull-downs-selectors, these in clumps to keep the pulldowns from being too long (e.g.: A-E, F-H, I-M, N-Q, Q-Z (names are unique to each image, no dups)).
Tried playing with Lightbox 2 (Beta) - Broke the site, and would prefer not to use a lightbox for performance reasons.
Helpful to just have general suggestions - names of modules that people have used with D7 and whether the layout was something that was module-native or something that they had to get to by some other means would be appreciated.
Also, clearly, quick thoughts on how to implement the indexing - there has to be some trick that will enable me to associate a number of names with each image and then either have the page/focus move to the image or open up a large version of the image in another tab.
Thanks much.